PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0 Early Access Program started

We are happy to announce first public build of PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0!

There’s a huge amount of changes, totalling to hundreds of user votes. The most important of what’s already available today is new Type Inference for PHP. We’ll publish a series of blog posts on this and other new features. Also, much more is coming!

As usual, bear in mind that you are getting a snapshot of work in progress and product will undergo series of technical and cosmetic changes.

EAP users should know the drill, but since this is a major upgrade – we’ll repeat:BACK UP YOUR PROJECT INFO BEFORE 1st RUN

IDE Configs are stored in a separate folder, so all previous builds are unaffected by this one. Plus – automatic import will finally pick old ones up for you on the first run

3rd party plugins may cease to work with this build – ping authors for platform 12 support, we’ll gladly help them in case of trouble

Oh, great! Time to start telling myself I need a stable IDE more than I need the new features. Last time around I think I lasted nearly a whole month before you announced something that made me drool too much to resist.